VMware Certified Professional - Cloud Management and Automation Advanced Practice Exam: Hard Questions 2025

An organization is deploying VMware Aria Automation in a multi-region environment with strict data residency requirements. They need to ensure that deployment metadata and logs for European workloads never leave the EU region, while maintaining centralized governance. The architecture includes cloud zones in both US and EU regions. Which architectural approach best satisfies these requirements?

During a VMware Aria Automation deployment, the infrastructure team notices that cloud proxy appliances in remote data centers are experiencing intermittent connection failures to the Aria Automation control plane. The proxy logs show SSL handshake timeouts occurring specifically during peak hours. Network connectivity tests show consistent latency of 180ms and no packet loss. What is the MOST likely root cause and remediation?

A cloud architect needs to configure cloud accounts for a hybrid cloud environment spanning AWS, Azure, and on-premises VMware vSphere. The organization requires that development teams can only deploy to pre-approved regions, with AWS limited to us-east-1 and eu-west-1, while production workloads must use reserved capacity where available. Which combination of configurations achieves this with the LEAST administrative overhead?

An organization has configured VMware Aria Automation with multiple cloud accounts across AWS and Azure. Users report that deployments to Azure consistently fail with 'insufficient quota' errors, even though the Azure subscription has adequate quota limits when checked directly in the Azure portal. AWS deployments work correctly. What is the MOST likely cause of this discrepancy?

A blueprint architect is designing a complex multi-tier application blueprint that needs to support both AWS and Azure deployments with minimal code duplication. The application requires three tiers: web, application, and database. Each tier has cloud-specific optimizations (AWS uses placement groups for the app tier, Azure uses proximity placement groups). Security group/NSG rules differ between clouds but serve the same logical purpose. What design approach provides the BEST balance of maintainability and cloud-specific optimization?

A development team's blueprint includes a custom resource that integrates with an external IPAM system through ABX actions. During testing, they discover that when deployments fail at the database tier (the third of four tiers), the IP addresses allocated by the custom resource in the first tier are not being released back to the IPAM system, causing IP exhaustion. The ABX action includes both CREATE and DELETE operations. What is the MOST likely cause and solution?

An enterprise is implementing a self-service catalog with blueprints that provision multi-cloud infrastructure. They need to enforce that production deployments include mandatory backup configuration, monitoring agents, and compliance scanning tools, while development deployments should have these as optional add-ons. The solution must prevent users from bypassing these requirements. Which approach provides the MOST robust enforcement mechanism?

A VMware Aria Automation administrator notices that storage allocation for deployed VMs consistently exceeds requested amounts by 15-20%. Investigation reveals that the blueprint specifies 100GB disks, but provisioned VMs show 120GB. The environment includes multiple storage policies across vSAN and traditional SAN storage. Cloud zones are configured with storage profiles mapped to vSphere storage policies. What is the MOST likely cause of this over-allocation?

An organization operates VMware Aria Automation across three data centers with local vCenter instances. They experience an issue where deployments targeting datacenter B occasionally provision VMs in datacenter C instead. All three datacenters are configured as separate cloud zones with capability tags (dc:b and dc:c), and blueprints specify hard constraints matching these tags. Network connectivity between Aria Automation and all vCenters is stable. What troubleshooting approach would MOST effectively identify the root cause?

A company uses VMware Aria Automation with integration to vRealize Operations for intelligent placement decisions based on real-time cluster performance metrics. After a recent vRealize Operations upgrade, new VM deployments are no longer being distributed according to performance metrics and instead follow simple round-robin placement. The integration status shows as 'healthy' in Aria Automation. Existing deployed VMs continue to receive right-sizing recommendations from vRealize Operations. What is the MOST likely cause?